The best gluten free in Detroit

Whenever I go home, it’s always an adventure trying to find something to eat. Luckily my family is amazing and always has something special for me at family gatherings, like gluten free rice krispy treats, brownies, or fresh fruits and veggies. They’ve also managed to rework some of our old family recipes to eliminate the gluten in them: like swapping out the cream of chicken soup in Party Potatoes for a can of gluten free cream of mushroom. Some family recipes happen to be gluten free already too – like this winner from my grandma’s cookbook for NACHO PIE!

Now of course you’d need gf versions of all of the ingredients (usually I substitute slow cooker chili seasoning for the taco seasoning, since gf packets are hard to find).

Back to the point of this post though. Even though Detroit is still behind the pack as far as gluten free restaurants, there are some that are emerging and some great non-gf restaurants that are very accommodating.

Cottage Inn thin crust pizza used to be my favorite pizza ever. We would eat it backstage at dance recitals, and some people may have even eaten half of one savagely in the car while driving. They carry gf pizza at some of their locations – check this map to find out where.

Last time I was home I tried to go to Greengos, but they are closed on Mondays (?) 😦 Oh, Grosse Pointe. There is basically no information on their website, but the menu in the window looked really fresh and they have some great yelp reviews.

For 75 cents extra you can have gluten free bread substituted on your sandwich. Most of the ingredients are homemade, plus they have Better-Made potato chips, ice cream from Calder’s Dairy, Sander’s hot fudge, Michigan berries, and lots of other local ingredients, which I <3. If I went there I would totally get the Sorry Charlie – Mudgie-made albacore tuna salad, Dill Havarti cheese, cucumber, tomato and mixed greens, served with a side of honey mustard dressing.

I’ve had lunch at Mudgie’s Deli and it was fabulous! I would rate it excellent! I heard that Dan Good Pizza has the best Gluten Free Pizza in the area but I have not tried it yet. I’ll have to look into the gluten free bumpy cake!

Thanks for the tips, Julie – you rock! I’ll have to try Dan’s when I go home next, the 9 mile location is right by me. And yes, bumpy cake goes down as a gf fantasy for me – I’m going to definitely try to work on a recipe 🙂

I went to school at Michigan State in East Lansing and there is a chain restaurant called Guidos in Okemos – the owner created his own GF menu and his own flower blend that makes AMAZING pizza and stromboli and cinnamon bread sticks or garlic bread sticks. He also recently opened a restaurant next door called With Out Wheat, I can only say good things!

WOW is right! That place looks like a real gem. I don’t think that I’ve seen waffle cones or stuffed shells on any other menu. Being a Wolverine myself though, I don’t know how I feel about this place being in East Lansing 😉